On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 01:13:53PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > It's actually optional. See 5121a6d (Documentation: option to render > > literal text as bold for manpages, 2009-03-27). I don't see a good > > reason that wasn't made the default early, except conservatism. I've had > > it enabled for years (though I admit I don't read the manpages that much > > these days :) ). > > Interesting. What I happen to use when populating the git-manpages > repository would have wider impact to the users, as I hear that some > (or many) distros just package whatever I have there. I do not mind > enabling it on my end if that gives us more readable rendition. I think it's probably fine and a positive change, but one never knows. I guess distros don't package what you ship until you actually tag a release, so it would be OK to start doing so during a cycle to shake out any problems (and in fact preferable, as anybody who follows "master" using "make install-man-quick" would get it early and be able to make a report). If we are doing that, it would make sense to flip MAN_BOLD_LITERAL on by default during that same cycle, so we could get reports from people who build the manpages from source. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html